Contesting the Moral High Ground
Subtitle: Popular Moralists in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780773541122
Subjects: Huxley, julian, 1887-1975; Russell, bertrand, 1872-1970; Muggeridge, malcolm, 1903-1990; Ethics, great britain; Great britain, moral conditions; Great britain, intellectual life
Description: In mid-twentieth century Britain, four intellectuals - Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Malcolm Muggeridge, and Barbara Ward - held sway over popular conceptions of morality. While Huxley and Russell championed ideas informed by agnosticism and atheism, Muggeridge and Ward were adherents to Christianity. In Contesting the Moral High Ground, Paul Phillips reveals how this fundamental dichotomy was representative of British society at the time, and how many of the ideologies promoted by these four moralists are still present today --